The Jordanian government announced on April 23rd that they enacted a sweeping ban on the Muslim Brotherhood and confiscated its assets after authorities linked members to a years-long plot to sabotage the Hashemite Kingdom. This move can threaten the country’s largest opposition party.
Jordan’s Islamist opposition party made significant gains in the country’s parliamentary elections on September 10th, winning one-fifth of the parliament’s seats amidst increasing anger and tensions with Israel over the war in Gaza.
Islamists score big in Jordanian election held in shadow of Gaza war https://t.co/c8CGA2McSh
A restaurant in Jordan is facing criticism after it unveiled its name, which comes from the date when Hamas launched a deadly surprise attack in southern Israel that killed 1,200 Israelis and took hundreds of Israelis hostage.
The King of Jordan approved a new cybercrime law on August 12th after being passed in the Jordanian Parliament. Critics and human rights activists fear that this new cybercrime law is more draconian than the previous one and that it will jeopardize rights both online and offline and could be used to target marginalized groups, particularly the members of the LGBTQIA+ community.
A new children’s rights bill passed the lower house on September 19, but Jordan’s parliament is still divided over the bill that has been debated since 2015 and reintroduced this past July.
On December 21, 2021, famous Jordanian-Palestinian artist/singer, Adham Nabulsi, announced his retirement from the music industry in order to “worship God and obey his commands,” sparking controversy over whether or not singing and acting are considered haram.
